[gmx-users] Regarding Umbrella samplling

[Justin Lemkul]

On 9/29/14 10:09 AM, Sathish Kumar wrote:
> Dear gromacs usres,
>
>   I have run the umbrella sampling with the help of tutorial of justin....In
> my system rna is binding with gold nanoparticle...to find out the binding
> energy i run the umbrella sampling using the space 0.2 nm and i got total
> 59 configurations, each configuration was run for 5 ns. The profile files
> are shared with the link below.
>
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/c8tj2rhu620xkim/Slide1.JPG?dl=0
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/745kixwrfvguyyt/Slide2.JPG?dl=0
>
> In the profile image, i have not got the plateu value, can i take the
> difference between final and starting pmf values for  the binding enrgy.
> Please give suggestions.
>

You don't have either a plateau or a defined minimum, so I'd say that the 
reaction coordinate is incomplete, either in terms of the sampling within the 
windows or the window setup itself.

-Justin

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